Change reference place

While nearly all horoscopes are based on the birth place, some special techniques might need an additional place of reference, which usually is the place where the horoscope owner lives. If it is not entered here, the place of birth will be used in all horoscopes which require this additional reference place.

use birth place

Minimal importance of reference place

Contrary to a wide spread misconception,
the place where you live has very little relevance for a horoscope. For the
horoscope readings offered on this website it has no influence at all.
The birth place and birth time determine your Ascendant and the houses in your
horoscope. They become part of your astrological 'makeup' at the moment of your
birth, and like your genetic information, they do not change later just because
you live somewhere else.

Transits depend only on where you are
born (because this influences your Ascendant and houses). They do NOT depend
on where you live.

The only exceptions are of minimal
impact. The time when a transit occurs is fixed in Universal Time (aka Greenwich
Time). It is the time when a moving planet crosses a particular degree of the
zodiac, where your birth planet (or house cusps) is considered to have left
a mark. This time is the same, from wherever on the earth you may be watching!
Only the local clock time for this moment however will be different, depending
on the timezone, in which you live. The 'reference place' at the bottom of the
daily horoscope page is used to determine, in which time zone these transit
times should be printed. If you know about time zones, you can however do the
conversion from one to the other just as well in your head, as you often do
when you watch a nation-wide or world-wide TV network.

Some special chart techniques like
Solar or Lunar return charts (for which this site does the charts but no interpretation)
might also use as a reference place the city where you live. Only if you
do such charts it is necessary to set the correct reference place.

You can rely on the chart output. If
a chart output page does not display a reference place, none has been used for
computing it.

Please do not send e-mail to the webmaster
regarding the reference location. Everything which needs to be said about it
is said here.

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